Do you totally suck at anything?

Yes, using straws.

Drawing. Not drafting, I can do that well, but if you need me to freehand draw anything more complicated than a poorly-executed XKCD cartoon copy, it won’t be a good result.

When I was young, I wanted to go on a walk in a nearby wooded area. My father was busy & suggested that I should take the dog instead. I protested that I would never be able to find my way home if I went by myself.

My father told me that when I wanted to go home, I should tell the dog to go home & that the dog would lead me. I’d never heard anything so insane.

but…

It worked.

The dog knew his way home. I did not. And, this was not an isolated incident. It happened many times.

David Letterman once said, “I don’t sing or dance & I don’t like being near people who can.” Sums it up nicely for me as well.

Close. My idea of decorating a room is to find two similar, identically-sized prints and put them on either side of the door. I measure carefully to ensure they are at exactly the same height and the same distance from the door frame.

Another thing for me is tact. I am totally not a tactful person, mostly because I hate wasting time pussy footing around. I’m going to tell it like it is, and if you don’t like the way I say it, I don’t care.

I cannot express myself accurately. The thoughts are concise and clear in my head, but they don’t make it out of my mouth or onto the page. I will most certainly be misunderstood/ignored in an argument or debate. I’ve surrendered to this fact, and now I (mostly) just STFU.

I can communicate rote ideas and some concepts, but I’m wary to offer advice or opinion. I won’t be understood, and I might just lead someone down an unplanned rabbit hole.

Teaching music… especially guitar. I have played guitar for almost 40 years… but can’t teach it.

I can teach kids to play hockey, baseball, football, paddling, sailing or outdoor skills, etc… but I can’t teach guitar.

Oh, and I can’t do Ziplock bags!

Typing anything on my phone. I don’t know how some people manage do it with just their thumbs, said thumbs moving so fast it’s like a blur of motion.

I usually have to poke it out with my right index finger.

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Math and science related courses beyond basic level stuff.

I consistently did bad at many tests and projects, I had tutors, study partners and everything!

Whistling.

I used to be able to sound two or three notes by puckering my lips and blowing, like the woman said, but now I can’t even do that.

I have never once successfully whistled through my fingers.

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I don’t understand what you mean by that. :slight_smile:

For me it’s singing. One of the great traumas of my childhood occurred in 8th grade music class. The first day, in order to determine our singing range I guess, the teacher had each student come up to the front of the room and sing a note after she played it on the piano. Mine went like this:
Teacher: (ping)
Me: La…
Teacher: No, sing this note: (ping)
Me: La…
Teacher: No, you’re not singing the right note. Here: (ping)
Me: La…
This repeated a half dozen times. Then in order to make it even more humiliating, at that point the gods decided that a messenger would come to the class and call the teacher out of the room for a few minutes. As she left, the class broke out in laughter and jeered at me as I stood in the front waiting for her return. I was the only person in the class who apparently couldn’t repeat a note that was just played. Since that day, over 40 years ago, I have made sure never to sing when anyone else could hear me.

Directions. I always tell people its because I’m female, and men are better at that, but when I walk out of the doctors office, they have to show me which way to go.

This reminds me of another thing I’m bad at: brevity. When I tell a story, I want to include background and details. If I try to express an idea, I tend to want to keep explaining and explaining until I think it’s clear.

It’s even worse if someone tells me I’m a good writer because suddenly, I become kind of self-conscious about everything I write. So either I end up purpling up responses to threads about how you like your eggs or go to the opposite extreme and start talking like a caveman who know how to use conjunctions.